Hello,
I have been following posts in this group for over a year, and need help figuring out a sensible path to upgrade for Internet Piano Radio.
In 2004 I purchased (from Evola Music in Toledo, OH) a Yamaha DC2A with Disklavier MK III, control unit DKC55RCD and silent key device.
After several moves, I have retired and live in suburbs NW of Houston, Texas.
I visited the Yamaha dealer in downtown Houston to seek service, tuning, and discuss upgrading to the DKC-850. Unfortunately, the people I spoke with were incompetent and did not even follow up with the tuning. They are now out of business, and I am trying to locate someone reasonably local to tune/service the
piano and disklavier.
Any recommendations for technicians in the Houston area would be appreciated.
From reading posts in this group, I am fairly certain I can perform the work to replace the MK III with the DKC-850. However, before replacing anything I need to figure out how to retrieve and back up music stored on the MK III hard drive and how to salvage the dozens of floppy discs I have purchased. I have purchased the USB floppy drive that Sam Kanter described recently, but of course the MK III does not have USB access.
I am assuming the DKC-850 will read and process the music I have purchased on
CD's.
(1) are there cables/adapters I can use to convert from the round 8 pin "To Host" plug to USB, or is there another way to retrieve the information from the hard drive?
(2) are there cables/adapters I can use to convert from the round 5 pin "Midi In and Midi Out" plugs to USB, or should I be looking for something else?
(3) what software is available for facilitating recovery from the MK III and floppy drives, and moving the data to the DKC-850?
I am sure I am not the first one to face this task, but I have not been able to locate the discussions/instructions. If anyone can point me to previous posted information I would be happy to sort through it and try to figure it out.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.
Roger